Sodium salt of n-3, 5-disulfamino-benzoyl-n-desulfoheparin



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Patented Jan. 21, 19-54;

SGDKUM SALT F N-3,5-lHSULFAMINO-BENZOYL- N-DESULFGHEPAREN Gerard Nomin,Nois-ie-Sec, and Robert Bucourt, Clichysousdlois, France, assigners toRoussel-UCLAF, A., Paris, France, a corporation of France Filed Aug. 27,19-52, Ser. No. 219,680 Claims priority, application France Sept. 7,1961 4 Claims. (Cl. 167-74) The invention relates to the novel product,the sodium salt of N-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin and to anovel process for its preparation. The invention also relates to novelcompositions having a moderate,

rolonged blood anticoagulant activity and to a method of preventing thecoagulation of blood for prolonged periods of time.

The sodium salt of N-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin hasinteresting pharmacological properties and particularly an immediate andmoderate but prolonged anticoagulant activity on blood. It is useful forthe preventative or curative treatment of thrombosis, phlebitis,thrombophlebitis, cardiac and circulatory accidents due to disorders ofblood coagulation.

It is an object of the invention to provide the novel product, thesodium salt of N-3,5-disulfamino benzoyl-N- desulioheparin.

It is another object of the invention to provide a novel process for thepreparation of N-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl- N-desulfoheparin.

It is a further object of the invention to provide novel compositionshaving an immediate and moderate but prolonged anticoagulant activity onblood.

t is an additional object of the invention to provide a novel method ofpreventing the coagulation of blood for prolonged periods of time.

These and other objects and advantages of the invention will becomeobvious from the following detailed description.

The process of the invention for the preparation of the sodium salt of N3,5 disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin comprises'reacting the sodiumsalt of N-3,5-diare comprised of the sodium salt ofN-3,5-disulfarninobenzoyl-N-desulioheparin and a pharmaceutical carrier.The compositions may be used in the form of injectable solutionsprepared in ampoules, in multiple dose flacons,

in the form of tablets, of glossettes, of suppositories and I of pomadesprepared by the usual known processes.

The method of the invention for preventing the coagulation of blood forprolonged periods of time comprises administering to the patient aneffective amount of the sodium salt ofN-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin. The said sodium salt may beadministered orally, transcutaneously, rectally or by application on theskin. The usual useful dose is 50 to 200 mg. and the usual useful dailydose is 50 to 500 mg. depending upon the method of administration.

Referring now to the drawings:

PEG. 1 is a graph comprising the duration of anti-coagulant activity ofheparin and N-3,5-disulfamino-ben zoyl-ll-desulfoheparin by measurementof the time of coagulation.

FIG. 2 is a graph comparing the duration of anticoagulant activity ofheparin and N-3,S-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin by measurement ofinactivation of thrombine.

The sodium salt of N-3,5-dinitrobenzoyl-N-desultoheparin used as thestarting material may be prepared according to the process described inthe commonly assigned US. Patent application Serial No. 824,676, filedJuly 2, 1959, now US. Patent No. 3,065,149. The process comprisesreacting acid heparin with a lower alkanol to form an ester of heparin,reacting the latter with sodium hydroxide to obtain heparamine orN-desulfo-heparin, reacting the latter with an acylating derivative of3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid such as 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl chloride andrecovering N-3,5-dinitrobenzoyl-N-desulfoheparin.

In the following example there is described a preferred embodiment toillustrate the invention. However, it should be understood that theinvention is not intended to be limited to the specific embodiment.

EXAMPLE Preparation of the Sodium Salt of N-3,5-Disulfamin0-Benzoyl-N-Desulfoheparin 21.3 g. of the sodium salt ofN3,5-dinitro-benzoyl-N- desulfoheparin (obtained according to U.S.Patent No. 3,065,140) dissolved in 200 cc. of water were introduced into1 liter of boiling water. 112.5 cc. of a 35 1%. solution of sodiumbisulfite previously neutralized by the addition of 37.5 cc. of a 9.8 Nsodium hydroxide solution were added thereto. The reaction mixture washeated to reflux for a period of one hour. Then a solution of 12.5 g.sodium hydrosulfite, 250 cc. of water and 10 cc. of N sodium hydroxidesolution was added and the refluxing was continued for aperiod ofanother ten minutes.

'After cooling, 750 cc. of an aqueous solution containing 10% of hyamine1622 (see Index des huiles sulfones et detergents modernes of Sisley,vol. II, p. 372) and 100 cc. of an aqueous solution saturated withsodium chloride were added. The mixture was agitated for a period ofseveral minutes and then allowed to stand at rooin temperature for aperiod of an hour. The precipitate was vacuum filtered, washed withwater and the product obtained was redissolved in 1250 cc. of n-butanol.The solution was extracted successively with 250, 125, 100 and 50 cc. ofan aqueous solution containing 28% sodium acetate, in the absence oflight. The organic solution was treated with animal black and filtered.2500 cc. of methanol were added and the precipitated product was wasvacuum filtered to obtain 27.3 g. of the raw sodium salt ofN-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin.

In order to purify the product obtained, it was dissolved in 275 cc. ofwater. The product was precipitated by the addition of 750 cc. of anaqueous solution containing 10% of hyamine 1622. The precipitate wasvacuum filtered, washed with water, and redissolved in 1 liter ofn-butanol. The hutanolic solution was extracted successively with 200,100 and cc. of an aqueous solution containing 20% sodium acetate.Thereafter the organic phase was treated with animal black, filtered,and precipitated with 2 liters of methanol. The precipitate was vacuumfiltered, washed with methanol, dried, and 22.7 g. of the dried productN-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-l I-desulfoheparin, were obtained whoseanalysis presents the following characteristics: S, 14.55%; NH 0.2%; N0none. Anticoagulant activity: 21 U.S.P. units/mg.

The above product was dissolved in 230 cc. of apyrogenic water, treatedwith animal black and filtered. The filter cake was washed with cc. ofapyrogenic water and combined with the previous filtrate. 70 g. ofsodium acetate containing 3 mols of water were added to the filtrate anda precipitation was caused by the addition of 1750 cc. of methanol. Theprecipitate was vacuum filtered, washed with methanol, then with ether,dried, and

18.25 g. of the dried product, N-3,S-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin, were obtained (being an over-all yield of 85.2%)containing less than 0.3% of free amine expressed as diamino bcnzoicacid, and less than 1.5% of N-3,5-dinitro-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin. S,14.6%. Anticoagulant activity: in vivo, 18 u./rng.; in vitro, 20 u.U.S.P./mg.

The sodium salt of N-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin occurredin the form of an amorphous solid of beige or cream color, solvated with10% of water. The compound was soluble in 5 volumes of water, insolublein alcohol, ether, acetone, benzene and chloroform.

All the purification operations were conducted in the absence of light.

The compound obtained is not described in the literature.

PHARMACOLO GTCAL TESTS A. Determination of the Immediate AnticoagulantEfiect The immediate anticoagulant effect was evaluated by g activitywas calculated in units per mg. of the compound studied with referenceto the standard heparine.

It was noted that the curves of activity of the sodium salt ofN-3,S-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin were noticeably parallel tothose of heparin. Consequently, a

valid comparison between these two compounds could be made.

For the sodium salt of N-3,S-disulfamino-benzoyl-N- desulfehepar in, theaverage of five tests gave an activity of 22 units per mg. whereas thatof heparin is of the order of 135 unts per mg.

B. Determination of the Delayed Anticoagulant Activity 1. BY MEASURE OFTHE TIME OF COAGULATION In order to dete mine this activity, thetechnique described above with the measurement of the time of co-.agulation 2, 4, 6, 8 and hours after the injection into rabbits in asingle intravenous dose was used. The results of a typical test arefound in the graph of FIG. 1.

It was noted that despite the dirference between the number ofanticoagulant units contained in the doses injected mg. corresponding inefiect to 2700 U.S.P. units of heparin and to 400 U.S.P. units ofN-3,5disulfaminobenzoyl-N-desulfoheparin) the action of N-3,5-di-.sulfaminobenzoyl-N-desulfoheparin became, starting from the fifth hour,superior to that of heparin and this activity was maintained for aperiod of 9 to 10 hours, whereas the activity of heparin disappeared in6 to 7 hours.

The following table gives the results obtained after effecting manytests:

2. BY MEASUREMENT OF THE TOLERANCE TO THROMBINE Doses of 10 mg./kg. ofthe sodium salt of N-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin and ofheparin were injected in rabbits intravenously in single doses. Theblood was taken 15 minutes, 2, 4, 6 and 8 hours after injection. On eachsample, the time of coagulation was determined at 37 C.: (1) in thepresence of physiologic serum and (2) in the presence of increasingamounts of thrombine. The thrombine shortened the time of coagulation ofthe normal blood starting at doses of 2.5 to 5 per cc. of blood.

The samples of blood taken after injection of heparin and of the novelproduct required evidently more elevated amounts of thrombine. The doseof thrombine which brings the time of coagulation to 200 seconds isconsidered as the amount of thrombine inactivated by heparin and thenovel anticoagulant compound as found in the blood. The graph of FTG. 2shows the results of this test and this dose of thrombine is shown asthe ordinate (logarithmic scale).

It can be seen from the graph that while the immediate anticoagulanteffect of the sodium salt of N-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparinwas clearly weaker than that of heparine, its activity curve whichcomprise a plateau crossed the curve of heparine at the fourth hour. Theactivity of this compound is thus superior to that of heparin at thistime and is maintained for eight hours after the injection.

3. DETERMINATION OF THE TOXICITY The test of acute toxicity was effectedon mice of the Rockland strain weighing between 18 and 22 g. The sodiumsalt of N-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl N desulfoheparin was placed insolution in physiologic serum at a concentration of 20 mg./cc. It wasinjected by intravenous methods at doses of and 200 mg./kg. The animalswere held under observation for a period of one week. No sign ofintoxication or mortality was noted. Only traces of bleeding at theplace where the injection had been made were noted. The sodium salt ofN-3,5- disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin is thus not toxic at dosesof 100 and 200 mg./kg.

Various modifications of the process and compositions of the inventionmay be made without departing from the spirit on scope thereof and it isto be understood that the invention is to be limited only as defined inthe appended claims.

We claim:

1. The sodium salt of N-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N- desulfoheparin.

2. A composition having a moderate, prolonged blood anticoagulantactivity which comprises the sodium salt ofN-3,S-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin and a pharmaceutical carrier.

3. A process for the preparation of the sodium salt ofN-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin which comprises reactingN-3,5-dinitrobenzoyl N desulfoheparin with an alkali metal bisulfitewith heating to form the sodium salt ofN-3,5-disulfamino-benzoyl-N-desulfoheparin and recovering the latter.

4. The process of claim 3 wherein the alkali metal bisulfite is sodiumbisulfite.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS3,065,140 Velluz Nov. 20, 1962

1. THE SODIUM SALT OF N-3.5-DISULFAMINO-BENZOYL-NDESULFOHEPARIN.